I am running Ubuntu on the Oracle VirtualBox. I was running out of room on my virtual hard drive (8GB) so I resized it to 16GB. Now when I try and log in I enter my password and the the screen flashes ...

I Have 2 hard drives, 1 is set up perfectly and works well with ubuntu.
The 2nd one i accidently set up as \, i can see it but not asscess it. I have tried to edit the parition but with no success. I ...

I am wanting to dual-boot Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS and Linux Mint 17.2. I have a custom built PC, that I built with 2 hard drives (500 GB w/ Ubuntu 14.04 and a 250 GB that will have Linux Mint on it) and ...

Ok so I got a hard drive that I got from a person who said that they aren't using it because they got windows 10. I was like, Ok so I tried to clean all data of it. It wasn't being detected by ubuntu, ...

I had a 4 disk LAMP system running Ubuntu 10 then upgraded to 12. The drives are managed by LVM since initial setup. Recently, one of the drive failed (the newest and largest of course, 3TB). I sent ...

I swear every tutorial I see and every software I run across can't give you an exact image of your drive, it's either gzip-compressed, or it's in another format for some specific software.
I want to ...

I want to use the unallocated space of my hard drive, I want to create a new drive or filesystem of that place and want to use. How can i do that.
When i tried to create another partition, it gives ...

I am doing testing with an HP Proliant Microserver G7 N40L that I acquire recently. I want to configurate 2 hard disks (1 TB per hard disk) in RAID 1 array. I mounted the volume like this video and I ...

I have a windows 8.1 laptop. When I try to install Ubuntu via pen drive on the machine, the partition slider(Not the advanced partitioning tool) is showing the pen drive as the storage drive. I want ...

I installed 15.04 as a dual boot on an external HD attached to a Lenovo T520i running Windows Pro 64. It worked well.
I then installed 15.04 on an HP Pavillion E017DX running Windows 8.1 Home using ...

I have been trying for several days now to install Steam games to my 500gb external hard drive. I used this tutorial (taking ownership, fstab, etc) and annoyingly, it didn't work. I got this message ...

I have partitioned my disks like so. My plan was to install Elementary OS Freya (Based on Ubuntu) on my larger 1TB driver under the 64GB partition. When I go to install it, I get this. My secondary ...

I was trying to move free space from my ubuntu partiton to my windows partiton, but i got an error message.
I was trying to follow these instrucitons with a bit of variaton due to a different setup (I ...

I was booting to a Ubuntu on an ext3 partition on an external hard drive. This has been my way of remaining true to Linux even in an what appears to be a increasingly Windows/Mac driven world. But now ...

I often read that one should not place swap partitions on a SSD drive, as this may harm the device. Is this true? Can you please explain the reason to me?
Because I otherwise would have thought that ...

I am thinking about installing a second hard drive into my ubuntu server. How hard is it to do this bearing in mind that it's a server and has no GUI. Also is there some way to merge the 2 hard drives ...

I have just bought a Seagate 1TB Expansion. When I right click on the icon in the Launcher, it says 'Unmount'. However, previously it has said 'Safely remove', where it has unmounted then removed the ...

I've just installed Ubuntu on my hard-drive, and the entire operating system is really sluggish. For example, opening applications and browsing files takes a very long time and is very unresponsive. ...

I'm just an intern trying to do my best job here, and the company I work with asked me to do the following: Send data from a Windows 7 PC to one using Ubuntu via an ethernet cable. So I learned about ...

I am totally new to ubuntu and I had installed ubuntu on a 8GB virtual disk using Virtualbox.Then I added another virtual drive to ubuntu (Ubuntu Disk 2) of 4 gb as follows
Then I formatted the new ...

I need to make /media/mightyalex200/Data accessible for me (or everybody) as RWX.
The only problem is that the Data HDD is a NTFS drive and I have no idea how to use ntfs-3g.
I'm also new to Ubuntu ...

I have a 1tb external hard drive which I partitioned into four parts but only the first two can open the rest they don't and a crc error is displayed when attempting to open. The disk have been using ...

So as the only user that uses this computer if I add a new folder or file into my external hard drive, the same drive I use for my Plex Media Server, from another computer, device, etc. Does that or ...

I am running Ubuntu 14.04 dual booted with windows 7 (on separate SSDs) and just stored all of my music on my 1.5 TB HDD (which is formatted as an exfat partition). Everything was working fine for a ...